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Moby <moby@mobsternet.com> 09/12/05 5:22 AM >>> I have a SuSE 9.3 machine that was running fine, and without any changes (tm!), the gnome clock panel applet no longer works. Whenever I try to add it to the panel, I get a dialog box that states "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?" . I cannot determine whether the Gnome clock panel applet is in an RPM by itself or is in an RPM that has a bunch of other stuff as well to set about reinstalling just the clock applet. I found references to this issue when I googled for it. However, no solutions were presented. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem? or how to reinstall just the clock panel applet in Gnome?

Thanks in advance for any help,

I don't know a lot about Gnome, or SuSE for that matter, but as a stab in the dark: Does it happen if you log on as someone else? If not, it's most likely a configuration blip in your $HOME/.gconf dircetory that contains the config for panel applets that are loaded. From memory it's something like .gconf/apps/panel/applets or something like that. You could try logging in at the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), rename that directory then log into the GUI again as your normal user. You will loose some desktop settings but these should be fairly trivial to setup again. I've only used SuSE 9.3 official RPM's and am running a currently fully patched system and have never seen this particular problem. SteveC